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Music // Coming up // Winter Mountain: Cornish Album launch
26 November
Saturday
8:30pm

Winter Mountain: Cornish Album launch

With support slots for Elbow frontman Guy Garvey, The Feeling and pop icon Seal already under his belt it's safe to say that 2016 has been a hell of year for Winter Mountain who is currently on tour promoting his brand new forthcoming record 'I Swear I Flew'. 

Winter Mountain released a self titled debut album in 2013 to unanimous critical acclaim with The Sunday Express stating it to be ‘an utterly fabulous record’ and awarding it a 5 star review. The Irish Post called it ‘A smashing album, a terrific, classy debut’, whilst Maverick Magazine had this to say: ‘Winter Mountain make them like they used to, and three cheers for that!’.

Tracks from Winter Mountain’s debut album still receive regular national radio play from the likes of Janice Long, Dermot O’Leary, Clare Balding (BBC Radio 2), on RTE Radio 1 and from local stations in both the UK and Ireland. Following the release Joe signed with the prestigious Faber Music Publishing.

Winter Mountain have toured the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland opening for some of the worlds most talented artists including the aforementioned Guy Garvey, The Feeling, Seal, Richard Thomson, Seth Lakeman, Cara Dillon, Rosanne Cash, Leann Rhimes, Patty Griffin, legendary songwriter Benny Gallagher, Paolo Nutini, Fleet Foxes and many others, and has graced the stage at some of those countries most distinguished venues inc The Ulster Hall (Belfast), Union Chapel (London), The Belfast Waterfront, Vicar Street (Dublin) and headline sets to sell-out crowds at the likes of the infamous Camden Barfly and Dublins Whelans Bar.

Praise for Winter Mountain

'A great gig, beautiful songs. You really must see Winter Mountain live'  JANICE LONG, RADIO 2

'Amazing...awesome singing, such beautiful songs.' ROSANNE CASH 

'A sound that spans decades, hypnotic' SPIRAL EARTH MAGAZINE

‘Absolutely incredible’ CARA DILLON

 A cracking debut at the Epstein Theatre for Joe Francis, who is fast becoming a leading light of Cornish culture, in a theatre made perfectly for his tremendous voice. LIVERPOOL SOUND AND VISION . CO . UK

'The performance that night was one of the most beautiful standalone moments of music we’ve heard in quite some time' FOLK AND TUMBLE . COM

'One of my favourites’  CLARE BALDING



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